How does fake news find its way into our social media feeds and how far can it travel? Filippo Menczer, a professor at the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing, says "bots" propel fake news into the highest corridors of influence online, even as far as the Twitter feed...

Eau Claire police say a 59-year-old Eau Claire man was killed by police Saturday after allegedly firing at authorities with a shotgun. The La Crosse Police Department is investigating the use of force.

A progressive legal watchdog group, has called on the Trump administration to withdraw its nominee, Amy Coney Barret, for a Wisconsin vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. We'll talk to a judicial expert about why some think she would put personal views before the law.

Critics within and outside of the Democratic party say Dems need to figure out what they're for, not just what they're against. But our guest today says midterm elections are usually a simple referendum on the party in power.

Wisconsin lawmakers seem to agree on a sizeable increase in public school aid for the next two-year state budget. But they don't agree on family income limits for the voucher programs that let low- to middle-income students go to private schools at taxpayer expense.

Aspects of the Reid Technique of Interviewing and Interrogation can lead suspects — such as Wisconsin’s Brendan Dassey — to admit to crimes they now say they did not commit. The technique was introduced in 1974 and meant to replace interrogation tactics that involved threats, beatings and even torture.

The quality of health care can depend on where you live. And a new federal report suggests Wisconsin’s small, rural hospitals are better than similar facilities in other states. Wisconsin’s "critical access hospitals" as they are formally known ranked first in the nation on 28 quality measures for the Medicare...

Researchers kicked off a four-year project this summer to study waves underneath Lake Superior. Scientists want to better understand the role so-called internal waves play in regard to lake temperature.

A new study from the Economic Policy Institute found that compensation of the nation's top CEO's is 271 times the typical worker's annual average pay. We'll talk to the report's author who says the gap narrowed since last year, but we still have a long way to go.

Following more than 2,000 Canadian children all around the country, researchers discovered kids who didn’t get eggs or peanut products by 6 months of age were two times more likely to develop an allergy — and with milk, they were four times as likely.